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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And the same Hierome Epist. ad Evagr. (fol. 150. Edit, Basil. per Froben, 1516. Tomo. 3. & pag. 329. Edict. Basil. 1536. Tomo. 2.) Saith thus [Quid •uim facit excepta ordinatione Episcopus, quod presbyter non faciat? Nec altera Romana urbis Ecclesia, altera totius orbis existimanda est: Et Gallia, & Britannia, & Africa, 1& Persis, & Oriens, & Judia ⟨p. 320⟩omnes Barbarae nationes, unum Christum ad•rant, unam observant regulam veritatis. Si Authorit•• quaritur, Orbis major est Urbe. Ubicunque fuerit Episcopus, sive Romae, sive Fugubii, sive Constantinopoli, sive Rhegii, sive Alexandriae sive Tanis, ejusdem meriti, ejusdem est & sacerdotii. Potentia divitiarum, & paupertatis humilitas, vel sublimiorem vel inferiorem Episcopum non facit. Caeteram omnes Apostolorum successores sunt. Sed dicis, Quomodo Romae ad testimonium Diaconi presbyter ordinatur? Quid mihi profers unius urbis consuttudinem? Quid paucitatem, de qua ortum est supercilium in leges Eccesiae vindicas?] That is [For what doth a Bishop except ordination which a Presbyter may not do? Nor is the Church of the Roman City to be esteemed one and the Church of the whole world another: Both France, and Britain, and Afric, and Persia, and the East, and India, and all the Barbarous Nations do worship one Christ, and observe one Rule of truth. If you seek for Authority, the worlds is greater than the Cities (of Rome) Wherever there is a Bishop, whether at Rome, or at Eugubium, or at Constantinople, or at Rhegium, at Alexandria or at Tanis, of the same Merit, he is also of the same Priesthood. The Power of riches, and the lowness of poverty, make not a Bishop high-error lower: But they are all the Apostles successors. But you say,2 How is it that at Rome a Presbyter is ordained on the testimony of a Deacon? What ⟨p. 321⟩tell you me of the custom of one City? why do you defend a few (of which superciliousness is arisen) against the Laws of the Church?]
And the same Hierome Epist. ad Evagr. (fol. 150. Edit, Basil. per Froben, 1516. Tomo. 3. & pag. 329. Edict. Basil. 1536. Tomo. 2.) Saith thus [Quid uim facit excepta ordinatione Episcopus, quod presbyter non faciat? Nec altera Romana urbis Ecclesia, altera totius orbis existimanda est: Et Gallia, & Britannia, & Africa,